NOTE : DUE TO A COMPLAINT INVOLVING THE DMCA (DIGITAL MEDIA COPYRIGHT ACT) THIS POST WAS REMOVED FROM MY BLOG WITHOUT MY CONSENT HOWEVER AS IT IS NEAR IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND OUT WHICH ONE OF THE LINKS WAS THE OFFENDING ONE (THOUGH I'M NEAR ENOUGH 100% SURE IT IS DEATH'S 'SCREAM BLOODY GORE') I HAD TO REMOVE ALL THE LINKS TO BE SAFE I FIGURED THE WRITE UP WAS WORTH KEEPING UP AND I ONLY OWN ABOUT 2 OF THESE ALBUMS I DOWNLOADED THE REST FROM THE INTERNET SO IF YOU DO A QUICK GOOGLE SEARCH I'M SURE IF MY WRITE UP MAKES IT SOUND INTERESTING TO YOU YOU WILL BE ABLE TO FIND EVERYTHING I'VE WRITTEN ABOUT HERE. SEEING AS IT WOULD APPEAR THE OWNERS OF DEATH'S CATALOG WISH TO KEEP MILKING CHUCK SCHULDINER'S LONG DEAD CORPSE I HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO REMOVE ALL THE LINKS OR FACE LEGAL ACTION! IT'S BEYOND MY CONTROL AND i HOPE YOU READERS/NEWCOMERS WILL UNDERSTAND? PLEASE FEEL FREE TO GO AHEAD AND FIND THE ENTIRE DEATH BACK CATALOG FREE TO DOWNLOAD ELSEWHERE USING GOOGLE I DID AND THE 3 CD REISSUES ARE SWEEEEET ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU DIDN'T PAY FOR THEM THE MOST EFFECTIVE METHOD I FIND FOR GETTING STUFF IS TYPING THE NAME OF THE ARTIST AND THE ALBUM YOU WANT FOLLOWED BY RAR 99 TIMES OUT OF 100 YOU WILL GET A HIT IT JUST WON'T BE THIS BLOG.

Artist: Death Country: USA Release: Scream Bloody Gore [Remastered] Year: 1987 Genre: Heavy Metal File Type: mp3 320 Info: Chuck Schuldiner will be remembered as one of the most innovative and truly talented performers in all of extreme metal. Product Results for 'death scream' Relevance. Recently Added. Living For Death. Scream Bloody Gore Line Art (White) T-Shirt.

CHEERS,

DAVE B.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and be a bit conceited, during what i would consider the 'golden' age of death metal from the mid/late 80's till 1991 I was an utter death metal obsessive beyond even what my trainspotting tendencies for all types of music are like now, I used to buy released albums on cassette, CD, Vinyl, Pic Disc and if there's was a coloured vinyl I'd have that as well in some cases I'd have 4 or 5 copies of a single album! Yeah i was that obsessed! In those days my knowledge and enthusiasm for death metal was peerless, I knew all the best bands had every bands demos fresh off the press I received upwards of 5 packages of tapes and records a day and i traded records and tapes with people and bands from all over Europe and the USA as well as as far afield as Mexico, Brazil and Japan I was also once interviewed for a guitar magazine on Dig Earaches recommendation about the original 'Grindcrusher' tour in 1989 and bear in mind this is all pre - internet and the most powerful home computer was a sinclair spectrum! I have only recently started listening to some classic death metal again because for a long time i wouldn't touch it, finding the modern scene a bit pathetic but when some of the crustier bands i listened to started to verge on death metal heaviness I decided it was time to swallow the fact that i was old and admit that even at this later stage in my life i still love some of those death metal albums from the classic era!
Just to illustrate my point a typical mail order purchase in the late 80's would go a little like this.. let's use Nuclear Blast as an example as they were the biggest death & grind mail order in Europe at the time, you would write a letter requesting a mail order list go to post office buy 2 or 3 IRC's (international reply coupons 1 IRC = 1 stamp in whichever country you were sending them to) send a self addressed envelope and request a mail order list, wait 2 weeks, get list, choose your records and give alternative choices, you would then calculate price and postage, go to your local travel agent, exchange your UK pounds for Deutschmarks (This was pre-Euros) pay a fee for the exchange, hide the money in the letter go to post office and send it airmail and hope it got there in time for you to get your first choices and that some postal worker along the way wouldn't find your money and steal it, then wait another 2 - 4 weeks for your records to come! What I'm trying to say is in those days the level of commitment to your music had to be high if you wanted to keep up with the latest and most obscure and best bands not like now where you choose what you want on the net click and pay in about 30 seconds and receive your stuff a week later at the worst!
My point in telling you all this is that if i tell you this is MY top 10 death Metal albums then you sure as shit can bank that it is a pretty accurate top 10 arrogant as that may sound! You're welcome to disagree and there will I'm sure be in some peoples opinions some glaring omissions but in my opinion these 11 albums (I know I said it's a top 10 but all will become clear) are all DEFINING moments for the Death metal scene at the time.
It also has to be said that aside from the bands that Tomas Skoberg, producer at Stockholm's Sunlight Studios Sweden, Scott Burns, producer at Morrisound studios Florida and artist Dan Seagrave should be given as much credit for the exposure and popularity of death metal as a musical force because these fellas were beyond important to shaping the sound and look of death metal during this period and without them i truly believe death metal as we knew/know it would not exist and would most likely have languished in the underground where it had done for the years preceding it's explosion in popularity. (Honourable mention must also go to artist Edward J Repka who illustrated the first 3 Death album covers and the first Massacre album as well as other numerous thrash and Metal album covers)
Now let me be clear one example of a glaring omission from this list will be Morbid Angel (who's debut and subsequent popularity i truly never got) however with the exception of one album on my list I am discounting any bands who's sound was centred around 'Blast beats' there is the occasional 'blast' on some of these albums but for all bar one on this list it is not a defining part of their sound in my opinion to qualify as proper Death Metal there's a certain pace and sound to it and that is not the intensive use of 'blast beats' OK? also most of these albums are debut albums simply because tho some of these bands later albums may have been more popular it was their debuts that had the biggest effect on the music and the scene. So with that said let's countdown!

This album is probably most well known for launching the career of one Mark 'Barney' Greenway who was already committed to become vocalist in Napalm Death during the recording of this album, however that's another story! I knew Barney through tape trading well before his tenure with ND and I remember when he sent me the 1st Benediction Demo 'The Dreams You Dread' I was blown away here was a band who had taken their lessons from the cream of the best demo death metal and distilled them into their own sound their studying of Death metal is evidenced by Barneys roars of 'Master' preceding a Master style part of a song and his stealing of Kam Lee's (Death/Massacre) trademark 'Slllooowww' roar and sinister Laughing before breakdowns and they were British which was a rarity!! All but one of the 5 songs from the demo appear on this album with vastly better production. This album had shades of all the classics Massacre, Death, Master, Celtic Frost and Barney's Kam Lee (Massacre) vocals were just amazing (His best vocals are on this album he never seemed to hit it as good again for Napalm) This album has fucking killer riffs by the bucket load and a real good sense of pace and dynamics whilst most death metal bands were content to put out an album with 10 or 12 songs of the same fast 1-2 1-2 traditional Death Metal pace this had fast,slow and mid-paced songs all of which worked really well to create an album that was original as it was an obvious nod to it's influences, it also has a dark and sombre atmosphere that few Death metal bands were able to create.incredibly accomplished songs for a debut but it has to be said maybe they could have done with a bit more practice before the album as the playing is very slightly sloppy in places but hey it is Death metal not tech-metal! and Benediction ALWAYS get extra points for being one of the few original death metal bands who have rigidly stuck to their template and continued to release consistent, classic and old school death metal to this day some 23 years later!



#8 Carnage 'Dark Recollections' (1990) / Dismember : 'Like An Everflowing Stream' (1991)


OK so i said it was a top 10 and here's 2 albums at number 8 actually making it a top 11 there is a good reason for this... both Dismember & Carnage had been making big waves on the underground scene in the late 80's Carnage with their 2 demo's 'Infestation Of Evil' and 'The Day Man Lost' (the 'Infestation Of Evil' t-shirt was one of the most prized by death metal fans at the time i however never managed to get one!) Carnage seemed to be unable to maintain a stable line up with the exception of founder Michael Amott on guitar so for their debut album he enlisted 3/5 of Dismember to play on it and no less than 4 of it's 10 songs were Dismember songs from their demos as well as both albums having been recorded at Sunlight Studios having an identical sound and both having Dan Seagrave cover art to my mind if you have 3/4 of Dismember including their vocalist and one of their guitarists in your band and use 4 of Dismember's songs well my conclusion is that you are in fact Dismember!! So by my reckoning that makes this Carnage album pretty much Dismember's 1st album albeit if the remaining 6 songs were Carnage originals 1 of those 'Torn Apart' was subsequently re-recorded for Dismember's debut album 'Like An Everflowing Stream' so all these factors together mean that these albums both need to be included together here but individually they were both a massive influence on the scene at the time So as the band members, studio, sound, cover art and songs are shared I'll talk about both these albums at once here.I find it strange that Carnage having the opportunity to record their album first that Dismember gave up 4 great songs from their demos for it, especially shocking for me at the time was the inclusion of 'Deranged From Blood' it was always a favorite of mine from the Dismember demos and one of their most distinctive and memorable songs and a song that good should've been saved for their own debut album however i get the feeling that maybe Dismember didn't have a deal for an album with anyone at this point and saw this as a chance to get their songs out there? 'Like an Ever Flowing Stream' was equally as good as the Carnage debut although maybe a little faster and a little bit sharper on the production sound but the songs are just immense and i suppose having given up the 4 demo songs to Carnage's album meant that there were 8 new songs on the album which after caning the demos for ages, it was great to have a load of new material! And their new songs had some great ideas as well like the triggered choral samples in 'And So Is Life'! To me these albums along with Entombed's 'Left Hand Path' are like the unholy trinity of Swedish death metal and along with that Sunlight studio crunching guitar sound defined a sound that's echoes are still being felt today in both heavier hardcore and death metal.these 2 albums are really inseparable in my mind and are vital and essential pieces of Death metal history I can't tell you the impact of hearing these both for the first time less than a year apart! Essential classic and brutal death metal!

So probably among the worst covers in death metal history (Where was Dan Seagrave when you needed him?) you'd be forgiven at the time for overlooking this cheesily and badly packaged album in the record store and moving on but if ever there was a case of not judging a book by the it's cover this is definitely it! Luckily for Florida's Obituary they had been creating quite a buzz on the underground having contributed 2 tracks to Godly records essential and much sought after 'Raging Death' compilation LP under their original name of Xecutioner (Alongside R.A.V.A.G.E. who would later change their name to Atheist) so most of us 'In The know' had been eagerly anticipating their debut album as Obituary for a while! The first thing that is apparent about this band is the fact that they have wholesale lifted what until then had been the unique guitar sound of Celtic Frost that distorted fuzzy yet heavy sound however these fellas had taken it to another level of heaviness! Once you got over the awesome guitar sound and John Tardy's vocals kicked in it was another shock because this was some kind of unearthly howl the likes of which had never been heard before (nor since) This was a band with a unique sound to them although they had that Celtic Frost guitar sound it was way heavier and those vocals SHHHHHIIIT! it was shocking! The other thing with this album is whilst many parts of the songs had typical fast death metal pacing these guys again showed a nod to their Frost influences by great use of dynamics plenty of atmospheric intros and breakdowns and plenty of slow and mid paced parts again produced By Scott Burns at Morrisound this music just oozed out of your speakers with utter menace! It was rumored at the time that John Tardy did not use lyrics but simply improvised his howling over the music this was not disputed at the time and if you listen to this album closely you notice that he does have certain 'phrases' that repeat throughout this album so I'm inclined to believe that they had banked on the lyrics being unintelligible at the time but have hotly refuted this rumor since! It cannot be said enough the impact of this album on the scene because i had been to many death metal gigs at the Edinburgh venue in Scotland during the heyday of death metal and there was always a decent sized crowd but the venue was never too packed, but when Obituary came to town in support of their second album 'Cause Of Death' supported by awesome German death metallers Morgoth and Slayer copyists Demolition Hammer the venue was crammed to the point where i vividly remember being 3 rows from the front and just literally having to go limp and flop out on the rows in front of me unable to move, turn or get out I've never since been in a venue so packed with bodies that i was stuck in one place for the whole gig in a heap of people! There wasn't even a pit because it was that packed that's how popular they were (bear in mind we had been getting every huge death and grind band at the time pass through this venue so it's not like we had been lacking in gigs). Is it justified? Yeah for sure! just listen to this album and you will see exactly what i mean and also check out their second album 'Cause Of Death' which is equally as good. (The file contains the remastered and reissued version of 'Slowly we Rot' which contains the 2 Xecutioner tracks from the 'Raging Death' Comp I mention above as bonus)


So no top 10 would be complete without the band whom to my mind started it all Chuck Schuldiner's Death This was probably the first Death Metal i heard as before i was even aware of the term i had begun to sort of 'dip my toe' into the world of thrash metal like Slayer and Metallica etc at this time (1985/86) Music For Nations subsidiary Under One Flag records had been of interest because some of the punk bands we liked had been adding metal influences to their sound and subsequently bands that had once been punk/hardcore front runners like English Dogs (see post HERE ) and Sacrilege (See Post HERE) had released their latest stuff on Under One Flag and the label had been licensing a lot of global 'Thrash' as well some of it from the home of metallic hardcore and thrash Combat records from NY (who released the likes of Agnostic Front and Crumbsuckers) so all that considered and being on the same label as those punk/hardcore related bands their other releases warranted checking out! One of the albums i picked up was this debut album by Death. Now later i would find out a lot more about the history of this band and their importance to death metal but at the time i didn't even know the term Death metal it was all just thrash to me however it was obvious there was something different to this band compared to the other so called 'Thrash' we had been listening to first off it was supremely heavy and fast and those Chuck Schuldiner vocals were like nothing else i had ever heard in metal at that time. Because i was not placed in the Death metal scene at this time i can't talk about the influence of this album upon the scene (if there even was a scene in 1987??) and i have to say that in this top 10 there are albums that i enjoy listening to much more than this but I feel that this was probably the first 'true' Death metal album to be readily available in pretty much any decent record shops around the world! (I was living in a tiny rural town in the north west of Scotland at the time and even my local record shop stocked it) so it has to be placed high for that reason primarily. The sound of this album is great, recorded by Randy Burns (brother of Scott Burns) it's been given a big sound, the guitars whilst not supremely thick have a great sound to them and Chuck Schuldiner's sheer talent with a six string cannot be denied even at this early stage (tho the band had been around in various forms since 1983) This is again an utterly primitive bludgeon throughout with Chris Reifert's (yeah that Chris Reifert later to form Autopsy) drums being on the nail and sounding like he was pounding Oil cans with wrenches plus the bass is nice and springy sounding and clear in the mix also! This is a definitive Death Metal album whilst Death would release many more albums with a revolving door of musicians and the only mainstay throughout would be Chuck on guitar and vocals and their later albums would be more revered than this one it has to be said that as far as i can tell this is the first actual album that can truly be called death metal and leaving the great music aside is historically important for that fact.

Massacre had been hugely popular on the tape trading circuit in the mid 80's with a ton of great demos and live tapes floating round (most of which were collected on the 'Tyrants of Death' CD which I also urge you to check out) partly due to the fact that they contained multiple ex members of Death but why no one decided to pick them up for an album until 5 years later is really astounding especially when you consider that Kam Lee (vocals) and Rick Rozz (Guitar) had been half of the original line up of Death, Talking of which you may or may not know that the line up of Massacre on this album is the same band that backed Chuck Schuldiner on Death's 'Leprosy' album so if you consider that 2 members of this band were in the original line up of Death and the other two were also ex members of Death you'd think they'd have every right to wrangle with Chuck Shuldiner for the name! anyway Death connections aside and onto the album if you consider the fact that these guys had been playing death metal since before the music they were playing even had that name with both Death and Massacre since 1983 that gives them 8 years of experience in 2 of the most well known and respected bands of the genre and believe me it shows! This album to me should really go in at number 1 it is the very essence of death metal if you ever look up death metal in the dictionary it should have a picture of this album there! From the off this album just utterly slays I once read a review that said 'the guitars sound like flamethrowers' and i couldn't agree more the sound of this album is fantastic,the album was recorded at Morrisound studios Florida but strangely without Scott Burns at the helm (this time he is listed as engineer) Production duties are handled by the amazing Colin Richardson and the difference in sound from other Morrisound productions is astounding this is a extremely sharp and clear mix which gives a perfect sound and level to every part of the music.The mighty rhythm section of Terry Butler (Bass) and Bill Andrews (Drums) Underpinning Rick Rozz's razor sharp and super heavy riffing with some great bass rumble and phenomenal double bass drumming! But much of the credit for the sound of this band must go to vocalist Kam Lee though his style and approach has been aped by many other vocalists (Barney Greenway from Napalm Death being the most blatant) This guy is the original death metal vocalist and his deep growling style just commands your attention immediately that and his occasional sonic high pitched screams just make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up! This album just has the sound of Death Metal Nailed PERFECTLY it's supremely heavy without veering into sludgey and overly droptuned territory the riffing is ultra fast, tight and razor sharp as are the whole band there is nothing at all on this album that can be criticized or nitpicked over this is the sound of musicians steeped in death metal tradition distilling 8 years of playing the music into one perfect album. This album is peerless it's sound, production and the sheer talent on display even now some 22 years later this album still sounds as brutal,heavy and intensely brilliant as it did first time i heard it, this is beyond essential! (Note it was also great that they chose to end the original album with 'Corpsegrinder' from the very first Death Demo probably the first true Death metal song ever written this is the remastered re-issue of 'From Beyond' which also includes the 3 tracks from the 'Inhuman condition' from the same year as bonus)
So here it is my #1 pick of all time Death metal classics now believe me with so many influential, groundbreaking and truly important albums in this top 10 I agonized for a long time whether i should make this #1 was i being biased because Entombed are one of my favourite bands? Did they deserve to be #1 over bands with such deep roots in the creation of the death metal genre such as Autopsy, Death & Massacre? especially as all 3 of those bands were undoubtedly an influence on this band? After much agonizing I decided that even though i may be a little biased that this was in my opinion the right choice.
These young Swedes as you probably know began life as Nihilist releasing 3 demos over 2 years from 88 - 89 before realizing there was another band called Nihilist and to save confusion changed their name to Entombed and recorded 1 further demo before unleashing this debut album in 1990. Firstly it has to be made clear that to young and new fans of the genre it's important that you know that this was the first Death Metal album to be recorded at Sunlight Studios in Stockholm tho that specific Sunlight sound has been replicated countless times and Sunlight itself has seen hundreds of death metal bands pass through the studio since this album seeking that sound this was the first of them and without this album the specific sound of early Swedish death metal would not exist as we know it.
This albums 12 tracks (10 on vinyl) collects almost all of the Nihilist and Entombed demo tracks and adds 2 new tracks, the title track of the album and 'Drowned'. From the off this album just goes for the throat from the opening effected scream to the dying chords there is not a second of this album that does not demand your full attention! Firstly the pace is ferocious without falling into stupidly fast territory tho it was definitely a bit faster than the majority of death metal at the time and the guitar sound is just sick it has a crunch and heaviness that only Sunlight studios could provide (many bands have replicated the sound at other studios but it never quite achieve that specific sound) top that with L.G. Petrov's brilliant vocals somewhere between the growl of Death metal and the shout of punk (this being a testament to the fact that Entombed by their own admission were influenced as much by classic metal, death metal etc as they were bands like Discharge and their native classic hardcore 'kang' punk) I could go on for hours about how great this album is and the effect of this album on the scene was enormous the shock waves of this album were still being felt years after it's release and even to this day (you only have to look to #8 in this top 10 for proof both the Dismember and Carnage debuts tho released shortly after 'Left hand Path' had a very similar sound to this album and both of those bands had existed as long and commanded similar respect on the demo scene as Entombed however if you listen to those bands pre-album demos they sounded nothing like Entombed preceding their debuts) Whilst death metal had been around for a while it really enjoyed it's highest popularity from the late 80's to 1992 and preceding the Entombed debut whilst as this top 10 shows there was many great bands and albums around the formula was becoming a little stale and a lot of bandwagon jumping was going on but this album was fresh original and utterly wiped the floor with it's peers and even the bands it was influenced by, the sheer wealth of talent on display here for a reasonably new and very young band was jaw dropping this album displayed a depth of maturity and a grasp of sound and dynamics that for a debut album was beyond belief! Although there have been some great albums in the genre and the best 10 are here for you this album stands head and shoulders above everything released before and since it was a real shock and such a breath of fresh air for a scene that although in it's infancy was beginning to become a little stale. This album deserves to be #1 in this post there's no doubt in my mind if you've heard it then you know I'm right if you haven't then i suggest you get going and download it now 23 years later it still sounds as vicious tight and utterly brutal as it ever did, if you only ever own 1 death metal album in your life it should be this one.
So there you go as i said i'm sure many of you will consider some of these choices as unworthy and i'm sure there are some glaring omissions for example I'm sure i will get a verbal kicking for not including Master's debut album but though it does deserve inclusion here i feel that at 17 mins long and having been around the tape trading circuit for 6/7 years before seeing an actual relase that it's influence was more felt as an underground demo rather than a realesed album and by that measure i would have had to make this a top 50 because there were so many influential and great bands that never saw an album and existed only as demo bands although many had their demos collected and reissued many years later (Dr Shrinker, Insanity and Fatal to name but a few) This post was intended for albums only. I'm hoping that this post will provoke some debate and discussion and i truly welcome it there's nothing i love more than discussing classic music so please feel free to comment in the meantime help yourself to 11 great albums that defined a scene that meant so much to me during my formative years and that I still love to this day!
Cheers,
Dave B.
(Me aged about 15/16 in my bedroom at my parent's first home NEEEEERD!)

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2001 Lonely Planet Prod. / Century Media Records
Vinyl: EX+
Cover: MINT
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• GenreMetal

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• PlattengrößeLP (12 Inch)